Extremely dangerous Typhoon Bopha is bearing down on the Philippine island of Mindanao as a Category 5 storm with 160 mph winds.

Bopha completed an eyewall replacement cycle on Sunday and has been steadily intensifying today, and will make landfall on Mindanao in the early morning on Tuesday local time.

Mindanao rarely gets hit by typhoons, since the island is too close to the Equator, and the infrastructure of Mindanao is not prepared to handle heavy typhoon rains as well as the more typhoon-prone northern islands.

my brother just flew there to get married. along with my father, step-mother, and 4 year old half sister.

mindanoa somewhere....dipolog city maybe ???

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24388158

Sorry to say, If they are Dipolog, Mindanao, they are going to be right in the path of the eye. Might only be a Cat 3 by then.

Best to call them and make sure they are taking shelter in a strong building. Maybe another 12 hours or more before it gets to them.

Boro

Quoting: BoroBoro

sry wasnt logged in.

im pretty sure that is where they are at. they arrived there about 6 days ago. my brother was to get married yesterday. but was hospitalized with a gall bladder problem.

now this!!!

i was thinking around cat 3 myself when it hits. i hope they will be ok. we live in florida, so we are hurricane seasoned. but might be a little different over there.

Quoting: Ur1el

If you can try and call them. I Lived in Florida to for awhile, and the building code are quite robust. Can't say the same for the PI. They need to be a good strong building, like newer hotel or something, then they should be ok.

my brother just flew there to get married. along with my father, step-mother, and 4 year old half sister.

mindanoa somewhere....dipolog city maybe ???

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 24388158

Sorry to say, If they are Dipolog, Mindanao, they are going to be right in the path of the eye. Might only be a Cat 3 by then.

Best to call them and make sure they are taking shelter in a strong building. Maybe another 12 hours or more before it gets to them.

Boro

Quoting: BoroBoro

sry wasnt logged in.

im pretty sure that is where they are at. they arrived there about 6 days ago. my brother was to get married yesterday. but was hospitalized with a gall bladder problem.

now this!!!

i was thinking around cat 3 myself when it hits. i hope they will be ok. we live in florida, so we are hurricane seasoned. but might be a little different over there.

Quoting: Ur1el

If you can try and call them. I Lived in Florida to for awhile, and the building code are quite robust. Can't say the same for the PI. They need to be a good strong building, like newer hotel or something, then they should be ok.

Seems Bopha is heading right to the west for a while now. South of the forecast track. If this continues it might be worse for the highly populated area of Davao City as well.I was just seeing that as well. Also, two other big problems with a westward instead of WNW track. That takes the storm over a much more densely populated section of the island, and also would have it spend much more time over land. [link to www.wunderground.com]

Colossians 1: 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.

Extremely dangerous Typhoon Bopha is bearing down on the Philippine island of Mindanao as a Category 5 storm with 160 mph winds.

Bopha completed an eyewall replacement cycle on Sunday and has been steadily intensifying today, and will make landfall on Mindanao in the early morning on Tuesday local time.

Mindanao rarely gets hit by typhoons, since the island is too close to the Equator, and the infrastructure of Mindanao is not prepared to handle heavy typhoon rains as well as the more typhoon-prone northern islands.

Colossians 1: 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.

On present course, looks like Cateel will get the northern Eye Wall, which is probably the worst winds and also this is actually one of the most vulnerable locations on this coastline, due to low elevations and being in the back of a bay.

It's turned a lot harder west than it was originally forecast to do, and that's considering that at one point it was actually north of the forecast center line when I first woke up this morning. Now it's way south and west of where it looked like it was headed several hours ago.

Colossians 1: 16 For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him.

At midnight today (one hour ago), its center was spotted 173 km East Southeast of Bislig City in Surigao del Sur.

Typhoon expert David Michael V. Padua of Weather.com.ph projects that Pablo shall be an 'extremely catastrophic Category 5 Supertyphoon' when it hits land somewhere along Cateel Bay, Davao Oriental at 4-6 AM today as it packs a sustained center wind of 260 km/hour and gusts up to 315 kph .

Pablo is almost 3 times the strength of Sendong that crossed North-Central Mindanao on December 16, 2011 wiping out entire villages and leaving 1200 dead.

This Super Tyhoon can become the most devastating typhoon ever to hit Mindanao since Super Typhoon Kate (Titang) in October 1970.

The government and private entities have braced for Pablo over the past several days with the best preparation and disaster preparedness plans it can muster. Rainfall caused by Pablo is classified as Extreme at 400 mm over 24 hours.

On the forecast track, the core of Bopha is expected to make landfall along the Davao Oriental-Surigao Del Sur Border this morning (approx. 4-6 am Manila Time)...and cross Surigao Del Sur, Agusan Del Sur and Misamis Oriental Tuesday morning until the early afternoon, passing over or very close to Cagayan De Oro City between 1-2 pm. By Tuesday evening, Bopha should emerge over the Bohol Sea near the coast of Misamis Occidental, and then traverse Southern Coast of Negros passing just south of Dumaguete City between 6 to 8 pm. This typhoon will then traverse Sulu Sea Wednesday morning...and pass along the northern tip of Palawan, very close to El Nido, Palawan by Wednesday evening.

Conventional wisdom once said that Mindanao was a typhoon free zone,particularly in December which is part of ting-init, or the hot dry season. Suddenly,Mindanao is now hit two years in a row by really horrible December typhoons.

Eye is definitely clouding up as it approaches the coast. It doesn't matter at this point though, landfall is imminent, maybe it'll weaken from 140kts to 125kts but that really doesn't make a difference.